Economical ones background in the GDR

12. October 1988Serienanlauf of the model waiting castle 1,3 with Volkswagen-license-engine-strong, Design-moderately partly only little successful retouchings at the exterior of vehicle, new 58-PS-Motor (43 KW) with new 4-Gang-Getriebe, easily retouched interior, but although retention of the body base and the vehicle concept with separate box profile framework with put on Ponton-Karosserie.Auch carries this model, even if easily retouches, the handwriting of Clauss Dietel, which sketched this vehicle before 25 years. All advancement measures in these 25 years were drawn by the constant lack in the GDR and the myopia of the GDR party and - government. So could be sold to the waiting castle 353, which was exported in the initial years even to Holland and Great Britain, in the end only, because there were no alternatives. With the attendance of various museums (AWE museum iron oh, ) One can tighten vehicle museum gaping brook then that it could have been differently (countless prototypes), but "„from above "“partly for ideological reasons noon was to have said: "„For our workers the satellite is enough! "“) one strangled, partly for material reasons (the investments for a complete manufacturing conversion were not for the GDR economy to bear). Not least probably cost the planned, but never realized development of a RGW car (among other things together with Skoda) important Entwicklungsjahre.Inwieweit of the waiting castle 1,3 as new model was meant, which by the obligations of the time like that was, as it was, or only as temporary solution to a new (never built) model is to be seen, to clarify will be probably not more exact.

With the model jump a horrender price jump was connected. From approx. 20.000-22.000 Marks for the waiting castle 353 (basic price) the basic price increased to over 30.000 Marks for the waiting castle 1.3. For many who had saved for many years on new waiting castle and whom price as - as in the GDR with consumer goods generally usual - reliable size had at least to some extent taken into account (price increases took place rather creeping), arose suddenly an unexpected financing problem. Hire-purchase or raising of credit was not with the new vehicle purchase intended (although otherwise quite usually), leasing or other financing possibilities usual in the free-market economy was unknown in the GDR; the vehicle was to be always paid at the time of the collection without or with cheque. A delay of the passenger car purchase was, if at all possible, so nevertheless problematic; more probable it is however that with Nichtkauf of the vehicle the authorization purged. This price jump with the long-longed 4-Takt-Wartburg ensured with the population for a disillusioning over in the future material available products of the GDR automotive manufacture, whose price region was on an equal footing now in for instance the import west cars Peugeot and with clearly worse Design and equipment extent. The new price strategy and the safe feeling also in the future with insufficient solutions to be abgespeist were also relevant reasons for the 1988 and 1989 rapidly worsening tendency of the population of GDR.

Basis 1,3 - the box profile framework

There is for all 311er Karosserievarianten a framework (exception is the 313 sports cars), all 353er whether Limosine, tourist or Trans has the same framework and with the 1.3er is it exactly the same. The only difference within series is, which the 311er combination/camping and the 353er/1.3er tourist stronger rear springs has. The load-sensitive pressure intensifiers for the Hinterbremse (briefly LOD called) have with the tourist and Trans types different setting of the design are likewise them however equal the sedan and thus exchangeable.

Prehistory 1.3

One had already begun at the beginning of the 60's-years with waiting castle to develop a 4-Takt-Motor which was gladly seen however neither by the ZK nor by the Actually 1972 the engine was finished, he however due to the alpha Deals with VOLKSWAGEN was again evaporated. The waiting castle engine (work name: 400) was a Reihen-4-Zylinder-4-Takt-Motor with 1.6 L and 82 HP. The new old Volkswagen engine was actually too largely for the engine compartment wait castle; that made a transverse installation and the 4-Gang-Getriebe turned out somewhat unfortunately necessary. A longitudinal installation was tried with the 1.3-Prototypen, but rejected for reasons of the aesthetics (see picture). The manufacturing equipment for this type already was in the building.

The RWG vehicle specified above probably gave it as prototypes with the surname to hanging belly pig (source: MDR television, the waiting castle story, 01." May 2006, 22:00), this vehicle was however never built in series.

The new 1.3er made extensive Investionen necessary. Otherwise he could hardly have been built in this form.

Prototypes

Also the prototypes waiting castle 360 (1974) and 610 M (1978) with self-supporting body were never built in series, whereby both vehicles gave an idea of the 1,3 already and the waiting castle has 360 similarities with the AUDI 80 and/or AUDI 100.

1987/1988 were begun to place to the 1,3 on the wheels; first he should be called 1300 and in the rushing guidance a Amatrurenbrett as in the Polo 2 (BJ 1981 1994) and a 5-Gang-Getriebe receive.

Changes and innovations to that waiting castle 353W

• Changes:

In 1.3 on the one hand the again arranged interior is to be called. At the beginning of still with parts from the 353W-Produktion (brown material, short black grasps), then however with new (black material, be enough black grasps from the OPEL shelf). Likewise it behaved with the seats. The instruments were taken over by the 353w up to the KMVA (fuel momentary consumption gauge), that Amaturenbrett and its organization were completely revised. Also a new steering column combination switch (turn signal/wiper) was used. From the 353W jediglich at the beginning of the head restraints were taken over, replaced then however in the course of the series against such out with material to referred foam material.

Further changes were: new front portion and a changed hood opposite the 353w, new issued fenders in front and in the back as well as another turn signal arrangement. From the 353w became taken over the headlights, the doors and the plastic door outside blocked starting from 1984 and - the front and back window (sedan) as well as interiorseized. Also with the tourist the tail external fenders were implemented again in plastic in somewhat rounder form.

• Innovations:

Trace widening in front and in the back as well as new wheel drivers in front, which are not identically constructed with those in the 353w. The new 1.3-l-Motor (build similar with the EA-111-Baureihe of VOLKSWAGEN) received a mounting plate, so that it fit on the changed frameworks. This engine (BM860) was blocked also in the Barkas B1000-1. The engine was manufactured in Karl Marx city (today Chemnitz) also for VOLKSWAGEN in changed form. The Barkas works made this Deal 1984 with Volkswagen.Das new 4-Gang-Wartburg-Getriebe were inserted transverse to the Fahrtrichung. Therefore the necessity for new drive shafts, a short resulted and is enough. The new body organization brought also new lamps and lights with itself. On the one hand the still u-shaped rear lights of the 353w were replaced by new flat 4-Kammerleuchten, integrated on the other hand the front turn signals also into the front portion, whereby small auxiliary turn signals remain in the outer skin of the fenders. The change of the rear lights required additional lights under the rear flap, which was likewise new, with the tourist variant like however with the 353w from plastic. The heating with ventilation blower was likewise completely again designed. The bumpers were likewise new, instead of old sheet metal seaweeds were used now more insensitive plastic seaweeds, which should be more easily exchangeable in case of an accident. Unfortunately the hanging up for the front fenders were in such a way designed that in accidents the fenders with were mostly deformed.

The concept of the fast and favorable exchange of whole vehicle portions was continued to perfect with 1.3.

The vehicle was finally presented 1988 on the Leipziger autumn fair - without to suspect that it would give the AWE only approx. to 3 years.

Experiments: In the current series innovations were tested again and again in each case. In addition counted a swimming saddle brake and a 5-Gang-Getriebe.

Innovations/changes 1989

• Change of detail at the door purchase: instead of the brown material used so far now brown imitation leather is used.

Innovations/changes 1990

• Changes of detail:
  • Instead of the imitation leather purchase of the doors now black material is used
  • New, long expanded polystyrene grasps in front fullly the short, old 353w-Griffe
  • Towing eye in the back is only introduced with the tourist starting from BJ 1/1990
  • Instead of the falling rocks foil used so far now a suitable plastic part is used with a higher life span

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